Did
you see us in August at
the NBTA conference in
San Diego? Take a look
below and enjoy!
Business Travel News
is about connecting you to the experts
in the industry. Below are some of the
latest interviews on radio and many are
transcribed for ease of reviewing.
Sandy Dhuyvetter hosted a special live broadcast
distributed by wsRadio at the National Business Travel Association
International Convention & Exposition. Click on graphic below to listen.
Home Suite Home
August 30, 2009
on TravelTalkRADIO
from the NBTA Convention and
Expo
Don Willingham,
Sr. Director, Brand
Sales, Homewood Suites
by Hilton
Celebrating its 20th
anniversary, Homewood Suites by
Hilton continues to set the bar
high for providing a
comfortable, homey refuge for
road warriors and family
weekends alike. With
complimentary Suite Start hot
breakfasts every day and Welcome
Home Receptions four nights a
week featuring stir fry, pasta
dishes, and BBQs, we promise
that you will not starve at the
Homewood Suites. Heck, if that’s
not enough, you’ll even have
your own kitchen! And what’s
this new feature, the Suite
Selection, all about? You mean I
can pick out my own room in
advance?!
August 30, 2009 on
TravelTalkRADIO
from the NBTA Convention and
Expo
Ralph
Kaiser,
President
and
CEO
of
Universal
Air
Travel
Plan
(UATP)
Founded
in 1936, UATP is a privately held
payment network owned by the world’s
airlines that processes $12B of
corporate travel payments annually.
Most of the credit cards issued by
airlines to businesses run on UATP’s
global “back office” network. And now we
can buy Amtrak tickets through the UATP
system?
What gives?
August 30, 2009
on TravelTalkRADIO
from the NBTA Convention and
Expo
Michael Premo,
Vice President of
Marketing, Sales and Customer Care,
Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC)
In order to
issue tickets for some 180+ airlines,
travel agents must first be vetted and
accredited by the Airline Reporting
Corporation.For
25 years, ARC has provided a unified
channel for the flow of financial
transactions and data between travel
agents and the air carriers. If your
travel agent doesn’t have an ARC number,
you might want to find out why!
NBTA Expo
Tops 5K - One of Best Ever
in Attendance
August 23, 2009 on
TravelTalkRADIO
Craig Banikowski,
NEW President and CEO of the
National Business Travel Association
(NBTA)
In an
interview with the incoming president of
NBTA, we learn that there is some very good news for
the business travel industry. With one
of its top 5 best registration numbers
ever, the NBTA just surpassed
5,000 delegates planning to attend its
annual convention and exposition this week in San Diego,
California. This US-based expo is
only one of a multitude of events the
NBTA will be organizing internationally
throughout the remainder of this year
and into 2010. Business travel must and
will survive!
Stephen Hayes,
President and CEO of The
Corporate Council on Africa Transcription
included
If you want to do business in
Africa, don’t go there! At least
not until you’ve attended the
2009 US-Africa Business Summit
in Washington, DC in late
September. At that event you’ll meet
over 2,000 people including
business leaders, ministers,
cabinet members, and possibly
even the President of the United
States. Then you need to join
the organization responsible for
the summit: The Corporate
Council on Africa. Now you are
ready to go to do business in
Africa!
We have been talking much this year about the Corporate Council on Africa. I have just been invited to present Interactive Tourism Marketing at the
upcoming 2009 US-Africa
Business Summit in Washington DC in late September. This is the biggest event of its kind and we can expect well over 2,000 in attendance. This next week, we will be talking to president of the CCA, Stephen Hayes, about the great opportunity for all types businesses to attend.
The Summit runs
Sept 29 - Oct 02, 2009. Please join me there!
Kevin Maguire,
President, National Business Travel Association
Many folks know that the NBTA has about 4,500 members here in the US, but are somewhat amazed to learn that the organization also counts nearly 30,000 additional members around the world. Kevin fills us in on NBTA’s global outreach and international partnerships. He’ll also let us know what Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson, Capt. Sully Sullenberger and Olympic medalist, Dara Torres, all have in common this August. Namedropper!
